About the day » Sunday August 19, 1973Calender converter

• Trevor Scott Dieleman, Thunder Bay († 1990)
• Teunis Maarten Dirk Vlieland, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2021)
• Danielle Petra Lisette Scheeren, Limbricht, Limburg, Nederland
• Francisca Wilhelmina Johanna van Stratum, Veghel
• Scott A. Youngman († 1974)

• Cornelis Visser (76), Hippolytushoef
• Arie de Lange (83), Bleiswijk
• Anne Tigchelaar (45)
• Cornelis Johannes Henrich (52), Berkel-Enschot
• Anna Maria van Gompel (65), Bladel en Netersel
• Dirk Noordveld (78), Groningen
• Barendina Anna Maria Schoots (52), Haarlem
• Anne Tigchelaar (45)
• Anna van Manen (93), Oosterbeek
• Cornelis Pieter Stolk (57), De Lier Z.H

• 1970 » Jeff Tam, American baseball player
• 1971 » João Vieira Pinto, Portuguese footballer
• 1971 » Mary Joe Fernández, Dominican-American tennis player and coach
• 1972 » Chihiro Yonekura, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1972 » Roberto Abbondanzieri, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1973 » Carl Bulfin, New Zealand cricketer
• 1973 » Marco Materazzi, Italian footballer and manager
• 1974 » Anja Knippel, German runner
• 1975 » Chynna Clugston, American illustrator
• 1976 » Régine Chassagne, Canadian singer-songwriter

• 1967 » Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born American author and publisher (b. 1884)
• 1967 » Isaac Deutscher, Polish-English journalist and historian (b. 1907)
• 1968 » George Gamow, Ukrainian-American physicist and cosmologist (b. 1904)
• 1970 » Paweł Jasienica, Polish soldier and historian (b. 1909)
• 1975 » Mark Donohue, American race car driver and engineer (b. 1937)
• 1976 » Alastair Sim, Scottish-English actor (b. 1900)
• 1976 » Ken Wadsworth, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1946)
• 1977 » Aleksander Kreek, Estonian shot putter and discus thrower (b. 1914)
• 1977 » Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1890)
• 1980 » Otto Frank, German-Swiss businessman, father of Anne Frank (b. 1889)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Jeroen
4. Peter
5. Robert
6. Marcel
7. Marco
8. Michael
9. Mark
10. Richard
11. Patrick
12. Cornelis
13. Hendrik
14. David
15. Dennis
16. Pieter

1. Sandra
2. Bianca
3. Maria
4. Johanna
5. Miranda
6. Monique
7. Wendy
8. Esther
9. Ingrid
10. Anna
11. Jennifer
12. Karin
13. Natasja
14. Nicole
15. Patricia
16. Saskia

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 13.4 million citizens.
• May 5 » Secretariat wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59​⁄₅, an as-yet unbeaten record.
• October 10 » U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with evasion of federal income tax.
• October 14 » In the Thammasat student uprising, over 100,000 people protest in Thailand against the military government. Seventy-seven are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers.
• November 1 » Watergate scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
• November 14 » The Athens Polytechnic uprising, a massive demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967–74, begins.
• November 16 » U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.

The temperature on August 19, 1973 was between 13.7 °C and 23.5 °C and averaged 18.6 °C. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.